haniwa

Clay tomb figurines, known as haniwa, of human beings, houses, and animals were placed outside the tombs.

e. Japanese Historical Mythology 2001

Noguchi's interests extended to ceramics, and he created works that deliberately evoked ancient haniwa ( "circle of clay") sculpture, which he encountered in Japan.

Archaeology as Modern Art? 2009

It is probable that this bizarre decoration was used only on ceremonial occasions and that it appears in a greatly accentuated form on the haniwa.

A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era Dairoku Kikuchi 1886

Thus the captor of a crane, at sight of which a dumb prince recovered his speech, was called Totori no Miyatsuko (the bird-catching governor), and Nomi-no-Sukune, who devised the substitution of clay figures (haniwa) for human sacrifices at

A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era Dairoku Kikuchi 1886

Several of the pottery images (haniwa) taken from the tombs indicate that red pigment was freely and invariably used for that purpose.

A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era Dairoku Kikuchi 1886

Clay Effigies, haniwa, from neolithic sites; substituted for human sacrifice at tomb

A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era Dairoku Kikuchi 1886

Ito sukashi dairi Hamamatsu, adj. itzebu dai-sho hanami jaburan dai-sho-no-soroimono hanamichi janken hanashika jigotai dan haniwa jimigaki daruma haori jingu do happi-coat jinja dojo harai goshi jinkai senjitsu dotaku hara-kiri jinricksha emakimono hashigakari jinrikisha Eta Hashimoto's jinriksha fuchi hatamoto jito fugu hayashi jiu-jitsu fuji hechima Jodo Fukuoka, adj.

VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IX No 1 1982

(haniwa), sometimes surmounted with figures or heads of persons or animals.

A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era Dairoku Kikuchi 1886

a dolmen, since all tombs containing clay effigies or encircled by terracotta haniwa would necessarily be subsequent to that date, and all tombs containing skeletons other than the occupants of the sarcophagi would be referable to an earlier era.

A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era Dairoku Kikuchi 1886